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To: PatrickHenry

Your posts can't be from the real Patrick Henry who was a creationist. You must be the phony Patrick Henry who attempts to associate the greatness of the original, who believed the opposite of what you do, with your quixotic Darwinist crusade.

"In North America the black bear was seen . . . swimming for hours with widely open mouth, thus catching, like a whale, insects in the water. Even in so extreme a case as this, if the supply of insects were constant, and if better adapted competitors did not already exist in the country, I can see no difficulty in a race of bears being rendered, by natural selection, more and more aquatic in their structure and habits, with larger and larger mouths, till a creature was produced as monstrous as a whale." ("The Origin of Species: The Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life")

Darwin omitted this story in other editions, but regretted his revision.

"I still maintain that there is no special difficulty in a bear's mouth being enlarged to any degree useful to its changing habits" ("More Letters of Charles Darwin," 1903, page 162).


"At some future period (Darwin writes), not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate and replace the savage races throughout the world. At the same time the anthropomorphous apes ... will no doubt be exterminated. The break between man and his nearest Allies will then be wider, for it will intervene between man in a more civilized state, as we may hope, even than the Caucasian, and some ape as low as the baboon, instead of as now between the Negro or Australian and the gorilla." (Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man 2nd ed (New York: A. L. Burt Co., I 874), p. 178).

"The Negroid stock is even more ancient than the Caucasian and Mongolian, as may be proved by an examination not only of the brain, of the hair, of the bodily characters. such as the teeth, the genitalia, the sense organs, but of the instincts, the intelligence. The standard of intelligence of the average Negro is similar to that of the eleven-year-old youth of the species Homo sapiens. (Henry Fairfield Osborn, "The Evolution of the Human Races," Natural History, Jan./Feb. 1926. Reprinted in Natural History 89 (April 1980): 129.).


96 posted on 04/14/2006 11:14:37 AM PDT by razorbak
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To: razorbak
Your posts can't be from the real Patrick Henry who was a creationist.

I've never claimed to be channeling the original PH. As for his creationism, that's not very surprising. It's difficult to see how the original PH could have known about the theory of evolution. After all, he died in 1799, which was 60 years before Darwin published Origin of Species.

As for your "quotes," the first large one ("the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate...") was taken out of context, in a discussion of the imperfection of the fossil record. Nice try. Your "quote" after that isn't from Darwin.

You're not very good at this stuff, are you?

103 posted on 04/14/2006 11:34:19 AM PDT by PatrickHenry (Yo momma's so fat she's got a Schwarzschild radius.)
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